Cannot change BIOS settings

Sam_T_

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Hello,
I'm having a problem with my Asus Z-87 PRO motherboard.
A couple of weeks ago I tried overclocking using Asus's AI Suite 3 (worst mistake ever) which has been causing me constant crashes and since then I cannot change certain settings from the BIOS to undo the overclocking.
This is what happens: I load optimized defaults, it reboots, I re-enter bios and THE SETTINGS GO BACK AS THEY WERE BEFORE.
Here is where i got kinda desperate; after removing AI Suite and seeing it didn't make any difference at all and reinstalling the Motherboard's BIOS (which is up to date), I refreshed my pc but this didn't work either.
Any help is appreciated.
 

Sam_T_

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Yes: removed the battery, shut everything down for 5 minutes and when the system booted up everything was default, but after a restart setting went back as they were before
 

NoAIm1337

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try unplugging all the other peripherals (SATA HDs, CDROMs, etc) and unplug all power cables (isolating the MOBO and the PSU only,) Maybe try using only on-board video for now with a monitor and your keyboard . If you have more then one stick of RAM, Remove them and only leave one in slot 1 for now. and try hard reset again.
 

Sam_T_

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Will try tomorrow. Thanks for the help.